Robust mixture modeling using multivariate skew t distributions

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-356

  Lin, Tsung I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

MCEM type algorithms; MSN; MST; Multivariate truncated normal; Multivariate truncated t; Outliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749280346     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-009-9128-9     Document Type: Article

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